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truck

truck (third-person singular simple present trucks, present participle trucking, simple past and past participle trucked)

1. (intransitive) To drive a truck
2. (transitive) To convey by truck
3. (intransitive, US, slang, 1960s) To travel or live contentedly

   Keep on trucking!

4. (intransitive, US, slang, 1960s) To persist, to endure

   Keep on trucking!

5. (intransitive, film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject
6. (transitive) (slang) To run over or through a tackler in American football

truck (countable and uncountable; plural trucks)

1. A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun-carriage
   • 1843, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte, Chapter 3

     ""Put that cannon up once, and Ill answer for it that no Injin faces it. Twill be as good as a dozen sentinels,"" answered Joel. ""As for mountin, I thought of that before I said a syllable about the crittur. Theres the new truck-wheels in the court, all ready to hold it, and the carpenters can put the hinder part to the whull, in an hour or two.""

2. The ball on top of a flagpole
3. (nautical) On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. ""Main"" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) ""mizzen-truck"".
   • 1851 Melville, Herman Moby Dick, Chapter 9.

     But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. Is not the main-truck higher than the kelson is low?

4. (countable, uncountable)(US) A semi-tractor (""semi"") trailer; (UK) a lorry

   Mexican open-bed trucks haul most of the fresh produce that comes into the United States from Mexico.

   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbit, Chapter 1

     A line of fifty trucks from the Zenith Steel and Machinery Company was attacked by strikers-rushing out from the sidewalk, pulling drivers from the seats, smashing carburetors and commutators, while telephone girls cheered from the walk, and small boys heaved bricks.

   • 2009, James Beach, Peterbilt: Long-Haul Legend^[1], page 48:

     Thats why driving truck became more than a job for many in the industry. Driving truck was a lifestyle.

5. Any motor vehicle designed for carrying cargo, including delivery vans, pickups, and other motorized vehicles (including passenger autos) fitted with a bed designed to carry goods
6. A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow
7. A small wagon or cart, of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, as with those in hotels for moving luggage, or in libraries for transporting books
   • 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle Chapter 3

     From the doors of these rooms went men with loaded trucks, to the platform where freight cars were waiting to be filled; and one went out there and realized with a start that he had come at last to the ground floor of this enormous building.

8. A pantechnicon (removal van)
9. (UK) A flatbed railway car
10. A pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track. The axle on many types of railway car is not attached to the truck and relies on gravity to remain within the trucks brackets (on the trucks base) that hold the axle in place
    • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

      Far away he could hear the sharp clinking of the trucks on the railway. No, it was not they that were far away. They were there in their places. But where was he himself?

11. The part of a skateboard that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
12. (theatre) A platform with wheels or casters
13. dirt or other messiness
    • Aunt Polly looked at the jam on Hucks face, and said, ""What is that truck?"" - Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn

truck (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden
   • 1792 November 4, George Washington, ^[6], quoted in The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources: Volume 32, 1745-1799.:

     As the home house people (the industrious part of them at least) might want ground for their truck patches, they might, for this purpose, cultivate what would be cleared. But I would have the ground from the cross fence by the Spring, quite round by the Wharf, first grubbed, before the (above mentioned) is attempted.

   • 1903, Joel Chandler Harris, chapter 11, ""Brother Rabbits Cradle"", New Stories of the Old Plantation^[7]:

     ""Wid dat, Brer Rabbit low dat Mr. Man done been had im hired fer ter take keer er his truck patch, an keep out de minks, de mush-rats an de weasels.

Definizione dizionario truck

	autocarro
	vehicle designed for carrying cargo
	drive a truck
	Any motor vehicle designed for carrying cargo.

	camion
	vehicle designed for carrying cargo
	drive a truck
	A large motor vehicle designed to carry heavy loads, especially one with a flat platform. (Source: CED)
	Any motor vehicle designed for carrying cargo.

carro

vagone

vettura

	guidare
	drive a truck

barattare

camion, carro merci

carrello

furgone

scambio

trasportare

Altri significati:

(transitive) (slang) To run over or through a tackler in American football.

Any motor vehicle designed for carrying cargo, including delivery vans, pickups, and other motorized vehicles (including passenger autos) fitted with a bed designed to carry goods.

semi-trailer

(nautical) On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a '''truck''' on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".

(transitive) To convey by truck.

The ball on top of a flagpole.

(intransitive) To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.

(intransitive) (US, slang, 1960s) To persist, to endure.

(theatre) A platform with wheels or casters.

(usually with negative) Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.

A pantechnicon (removal van).

The part of a skateboard that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.

(US) Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).

Pertaining to a garden patch or truck garden.

A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow.

A small wagon or cart, of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, as with those in hotels for moving luggage, or in libraries for transporting books.

(intransitive) (US, slang, 1960s) To travel or live contentedly.

(UK) A flatbed railway car.

top of a flagpole

(transitive) To trade, exchange; barter.

(obsolete) '''(often used in plural sense)''' Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.

(intransitive) To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.

(countable, uncountable)(US) A semi-tractor ("semi") trailer; (UK) a lorry.

A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun-carriage.

A pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track. The axle on many types of railway car is not attached to the truck and relies on gravity to remain within the truck's brackets (on the truck's base) that hold the axle in place.

(intransitive) To drive a truck.

(film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.